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Obama Thinks America Has Never Worked

RUSH: Late yesterday afternoon, this is in the Coral Gables, this is at a fundraiser, this is after Obama sang the praises of pond scum as the next substitute for oil.

OBAMA: We've gotta make sure that everybody's doing their fair share. Everybody needs a fair shot, everybody's gotta play by the same set of rules, everybody's gotta do their fair share. Everybody's gotta do their part! Everybody in this room, we are here, successful, because somebody down the road have not just thinkin' about themselves, they were takin' responsibility for the country as a whole.

RUSH: What an absolute crock! That is the exact opposite of what goes on. That is his translation of Karl Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." This is absolutely full of it. "Everybody gotta do their part. Everybody in this room, we're here, successful, 'cause somebody down the road was not just thinkin' about themselves, they were takin' responsibility for the country as a whole." That is not what propelled this country! This country was propelled by rugged individualism and rugged self-interest, and it was made possible by virtue of the freedom this country offers its citizens thanks to our Constitution, founding documents, and Founding Fathers.

Now, this may be a fine line. Obama wants you to think that everybody that he deems "successful" is first thinking of government and then, second, thinking of government, and then the last thing they think of is government, and everything they do is oriented toward making the government better. And that isn't true. Most people today are finding a way to avoid the government! Because of guys like Obama, most people are trying to find a way to evade the government. Because the government, run by guys like Obama, is an obstacle. It's in people's way.

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OBAMA: We're not gonna win the race for new jobs and new businesses and middle class security if we're responding to today's challenges with the same old, tired worn out "you're on your own" economics that hasn't worked. What these other guys are peddling has not worked. It didn't work in the decade before the Great Depression. It did not work in the decade before I became president. It will not work now.

RUSH: Do you believe this? The country has never worked. Capitalism has never worked. America was not great until the New Deal, and then America plunged into the abyss again, and only is on the path to reclaiming its greatness now that Obama is replicating the New Deal by a factor of ten. Has he ever heard of the Roaring Twenties? Has he ever heard of the boom in the fifties and the sixties and the seventies? Has he ever heard of what happened in the 1980s? It never worked? This is the second time he's said this in such a prominent way. Last time was when he made his speech, I guess it was in December, might have been January, the days run together so quickly now, in Osawatomie, Kansas, where he said, America, as founded, hasn't worked.

Mr. President, you keep talking. And, by the way, Stan Greenberg has a memo out there saying that what you're doing isn't working. Don't bother reading that memo. People aren't believing your lies about how great this country's doing, how great the economy's doing. They're not buying it 'cause they're not living it, sir. And contrary to you, most people don't get up every day and face the direction of Washington and bow down and pray. Government is not first and foremost in people's lives. That's not how Americans are wired.